Re: XP Pro SP2 phantom A: drive

From: WTC (bcrawfordjr(remove)_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 12/28/04 

Date: Mon, 27 Dec 2004 19:19:45 -0800

Check your Bios settings, make sure floppy drive is disabled. P.S. - You may
also want to disable your floppy controller.

You could have recently flashed your BIOS and then BIOS could have
re-enabled your floppy drive and/or floppy controller. 

-- 
William
"Haney" <robert_haney@ae.ge.com> wrote in message 
news:NQ0Ad.33150$mA3.10765@fe2.columbus.rr.com...
>I have a home-built PC that has never had an internal floppy drive 
>installed.  I'm running XP Pro SP2.  I have an external USB floppy drive 
>that I use occasionally.  It used to be that drive A: would appear in My 
>Computer only when I connected the USB drive, and then go away after I used 
>"Unplug or Eject Hardware" in the system tray to stop the drive before 
>disconnecting it.  Now, A: is always there; the USB floppy drive shows up 
>and works as B: when I connect it.  If I go into Device Manager and 
>uninstall the floppy disk drive, A: does disappear -- but only until the 
>next reboot.
>
> I'm not sure when this began.  It may have been when one of my kids used 
> the USB floppy and simply unplugged it without stopping it first.  Or it 
> may have started after I installed SP2.  I guess it's not a real problem, 
> but it concerns me whenever Windows behavior changes unexpectedly [yes, I 
> know, I shouldn't be surprised when it does :)].
>
> Any advice?  Thanks.
>

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